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Hello WKND AI Warriors!
Welcome to the first Sunday of 2024.
This week, we’re putting a pin in 2023 with a recap of December’s AI news.
We also included a 2023 recap that will knock your digital socks off!
Plus, a special ChatGPT prompt to kickstart your New Year's resolutions.
Grab your favorite winter beverage.
Here is what you need to know about AI this week!
Today’s newsletter includes:
🥳 AI 2023 RECAP
📰 AI NEWS ROUNDUP
🛠️ AI TOOL OF THE WEEK
🎨 AI IMAGE OF THE WEEK
🧠 AI PROMPT OF THE WEEK
🥳 AI 2023 RECAP
2023 was less about 'Artificial' and more about 'Intelligence'!
Here's the gist, with a twist:
What can you expect in 2024? Our crystal ball has the inside scoop.
1. Jobs
2. Chips
3. Video
4. Grok 2.0
5. Robotics
6. Assistants
7. Education
8. Copyright
9. Healthcare
10. ChatGPT-5
We'll see more job loss offset by a demand for high paying AI jobs.
AI chipmakers like Rain and Microsoft will compete with NVIDIA.
Single prompts will take videos from 5 seconds to 5 minutes.
Elon's gimmicky Grok will become a real LLM competitor.
Tesla releases Optimus 3.0 & more robots at work.
Anyone with a cell phone will have AI assistants.
AI personal tutors rise as classrooms adopt AI.
We'll see early signs of copyright law reform.
AI innovates in drug development.
GPT-5 is released, powered by AGI.
What are your 2024 AI Predictions?
📰 AI NEWS ROUNDUP
IMAGE/VIDEO
Stable Zero123, a new AI model, outperforms its predecessor in 3D image generation for research and non-commercial use.
Pika Labs introduces Pika 1.0, a text-to-video AI platform, offering diverse styles and competing in the AI video market.
Leonardo AI's new feature turns static images into motion videos, enhancing content creation for artists and professionals.
RIP TikTokers 💀
— Dreaming Tulpa 🥓👑 (@dreamingtulpa)
9:09 AM • Dec 2, 2023
Meta's 'Imagine with Meta' launches, a generative AI tool for high-resolution images, featuring watermarking for transparency.
Playground v2 surpasses Stable Diffusion XL, and is now available for commercial use.
Google Cloud reveals Imagen 2, offering enhanced image generation features for Vertex AI customers.
Google’s VideoPoet, a new large language model, introduces advanced video generation capabilities in a unified platform.
Midjourney released its highly anticipated Version 6 which brings significant improvements, including more realistic and highly detailed images, and legible text generation within images.
LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMs)
Google criticized for misleading portrayal of Gemini AI model capabilities in a demo.
ByteDance, owner of TikTok, enters AI chatbot market, following ChatGPT's trend amid privacy concerns.
Mistral AI launches Mixtral, one of the first non-US LLMs, a model comprised of multiple “experts” which promises to be more efficient and lower cost.
Meta tests new AI features across platforms, focusing on transparency in AI-generated images.
MICROSOFT
Microsoft releases Suno, an AI that generates songs with lyrics.
Microsoft boasts Copilot 2024 AI strategy with GPT-4 Turbo, enhanced DALL-E 3, and new productivity features.
OPENAI
OpenAI's Sam Altman named as TIME Magazine’s CEO Of The Year.
OpenAI “leaked” GPT-4.5 which promises to be a faster, but its features are similar to GPT-4…at a higher cost.
OMG, the AI Winter Break Hypothesis may actually be true?
There was some idle speculation that GPT-4 might perform worse in December because it "learned" to do less work over the holidays.
Here is a statistically significant test showing that this may be true. LLMs are weird.🎅
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick)
6:35 PM • Dec 11, 2023
The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright issues with AI models.
OTHER
Pakistan Prime Minister’s party uses AI voice cloning for political campaigning despite his imprisonment.
Channel 1 launches the world's first AI-generated news network, offering personalized coverage and multilingual reporting.
From Tesla employees dressing up as robots to the real thing, Tesla announces its Optimus 2.0 robot.
An AI chatbot sells a Chevy Tahoe for $1 at a California car dealership.
Well, that’s a wrap on this month’s AI news!
🛠️ AI TOOL OF THE WEEK
These tools promise to increase your productivity 10x.
Send us your AI tool to be featured next week!
VideoPoet: Transform your ideas into captivating videos with VideoPoet, Google's groundbreaking AI tool for zero-shot video generation. Experience the magic of turning text, images, or videos into dynamic, high-quality visual narratives, effortlessly.
🎨 AI IMAGE OF THE WEEK
These images are sure to inspire.
Send us your AI artwork to be featured next week!
Try out our prompt below.
Image generated by Midjourney.
a black and white cat swimming on the sea and a sinking warship on fire in the background on a colored 1940 photography --ar 9:16 --stylize 150 --v 6🧠 AI PROMPT OF THE WEEK
Did you already break your New Year’s resolution this week?
Copy and paste our prompt below into your favorite AI chatbot.
Send us an email about how it turned out!
PROMPT
I need help planning a healthier diet and calculating my daily calorie intake. Please provide a method for determining my caloric needs. Provide formulas in both the Metric and Imperial systems. Please provide a 7-day meal plan tailored to my dietary restrictions against [INSERT LIST]. Provide a clear breakdown of meals by day that I will adjust for my caloric intake. After providing the plan, ask me 1-2 additional questions that will help me achieve my goal to eat healthier.PROMPT STRUCTURE
Need Identification: Dietary Planning and Caloric Calculation
Goal: Healthier Diet
Context: Caloric Needs, Measurement Systems, Dietary Restrictions
Action: Provide Meal Plan, Calculation Method, and Post-Response Questions
WHY IT WORKS
Comprehensive: Combines theory (calorie calculation) with practicality (meal plan)
Customizable: Adapts to individual dietary needs and preferences
Interactive: Encourages ongoing engagement with follow-up questions
